Clothesline attachment



Nov. 26, 1929. s. A. WINETT. 1,736,868

CLOTHESLINE ATTACHMENT Filed Aug. 22, 1.927

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CLOTI'IESLINE ATTACHMENT Application filed August 22, 1927. Serial No. 214,518.

This invention relates broadly to attachments for clotheslines of the kind in which an endless or continuous line is looped about and extends between two-spaced pulleys.

The present invention seeks to obviate the necessity of leaning out of a window to hang clothes on the line. To this end provision is made for introducing, when desired, a portion of the clothesline into the interior oi the 1o building to permit the clothes to be hung thereon and the clothesline is stretched at all times as when a portion of the line is not introduced into the building, for instance, by compensating devices which take up the slack in the line.

A further object of the invention is a prac tical instrumentality whereby the invention may be carried out. To this end one of the supporting pulleys for the clothesline is carried in a pulley block Jformed-with a passage for the clothesline. Such a pulley block or its equivalent has of course applications other than in connection with clotheslines.

These and other objects of the invention and the means for their attainment will be more apparent from the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings illustrating one manner in which the invention may be realized, and in which:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the invention applied to the frame of a window on the line 1-1 of Figure 2.

Figure 2 is a view showing the invention in elevation.

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 3 showing a modification.

The wall of a building, indicated at 1, is illustrated as formed with a window opening 2 adapted to be closed by the sashes 3. At the side of the window, on the exterior of the sashes, a pulley 4 is shown, which, with a companion pulley, not shown, is adapted to have looped there about an endless or continuous clothesline 5 6. The pulley 4 is referred to as a stationary pulley in that it is not relatively movable with respect, say, to the building, although, of course, mounted as shown.

Mounted upon the side of the 4window below the pulley 4 and at that portion of the window which is normally open when the sash is raised is a bracket 8-12 which may be conveniently formed of a single strip of metal comprising a base portion 8 for attachment to the wall 1 which is bent outwardly as at 9, longitudinally as at 10 and inwardly again as at 11 and the parts 9 and 11 normal to the plane of the base 8 are provided with registering apertures 12for the passage and reciprocation of a slide 13 by which a portion of the clothesline may be introduced into the interior of the building.

At each end of the slide or support 13 is a pulley block 14, 15 adapted to support or carry the pulleys 16 and 17 respectively in offset relation with respect to the slide 13, the block 14 extending upwardly whereby pulley 16 may receive a reach 18 of the clothesline from the pulley 4 and the block 15 extending downwardly whereby the pulley 17 may rcceive a reach 19 from the pulley 16 and the lower Vor return reach 5 of the clothesline is also supported from this pulley 17.

If desired,l the slide 13 may be tubular as shown in Figure 8 or of inverted channel shape as shownl at 13 in Figure 4 to provide a passage for the reach 19 of the clothesline between pulleys 16 and17 and thus eftectually concealing that reach and preventing interference with the reach 5 to which the clothes are attached. In this event the pulley blocks 14 and 15 are also provided with passages 20 to permit the clothesline to pass into the passage in the slide, and as the pulley blocks are lined with respect to the slide, the clothesline will always travel from the pulley into the slide and vice versa without rubbing against the parts of the attachment and wearing or fraying.

When it is desired to hang out clothes upon the line,- or to take 'clothes off the line, the

sashes 3 being raised, the slide 13 may be seized and moved rearwardly through the bracket S-12, to introduce the pulley 17 into the interior of the building to the position shown in dotted lines at 17. Thereby the it may be pivotally i Y line is directed from lower reach 5 is extended, as shown in dotted lines at 5', ati'ording a length of clothesline within the interior of the building to which clothes niay be attached and which length may then be advanced out of the window and toward the outer or companion pulley as will be understood to expose a new length 5 for more clothes. This additional length 5 is, of course, made possible since the retraction ot the slide 13 reduces the length of the reach 18 to that shown in dotted lines at 18', all the other distances being unchanged. lVhen no more clothes are to be hung on the line, the slide 13 is projected again to the 'full line position whereupon the pulley 16 takes up the slack otherwise occasioned, by increasing the length of the reach 18 as shown in full lines. y

Various modifications will occur to those skilled in the art in the manner in which the compensation in the clothesline is eiected whereby a portion thereof may be moved vat will beyond the normal supporting point 'for the clothesline to permit the reception ot' clothes and no limitation in the broad aspect of the invention is intended by the phraseologyA of the foregoingdescription and illus-- trat-ions in the a.cc'ompanying drawings except as indicated in the appended claim.

Vhat I clairn is: i y

In a clothesline attachment, the combina tion with a continuous clothesline and a stationary pulley adjacent to an opening in a buildinfr of a bracket carried adjacent to 2D?. the opening and having a passage therethrough, a slide formed `with an axiallyextending passage and slidable in the passage of the bracket and through said opening between a position without the building and a position therewithin, a pulley block carried at the outer end of the slide and extending in one direction therefrom, a pulley carried by the pulley block about which the clothesthe stationary pulley and from which the clothesline is directed through the passage in the slide, a pulley block carried at the inner end of the slide and extending therefrom in a direction opposite to that of the first named pulley and a pulley carried by the pulley block about which the clothesline passing throughthe slide :troni the second pulley is directed. 1

In testimony whereof 1 afX my signature.

SCHAI A. WINETT. 

